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...Corporation yesterday decided to abstain on a shareholder resolution that calls on the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T)--in which Harvard owns about $20 million of stock--to set up a special committee to evaluate its nuclear weapons development...
Thus was born the first clerihew, the brainchild of Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956). Bentley went on to write detective novels, including Trent's Last Case (1912), and to compose editorials for the Daily Telegraph. But his fame was ensured by those dotty four-line biographies that kept punctuating his otherwise respectable existence. He lived to see his middle name enshrined in the Oxford English Dictionary...
Buffett's 1980 release Coconut Telegraph got the boot from at least one critic, who accused him of "cruising." That LP may have been the last featuring the mellow life in the islands, though it had certain serious overtones indicating Buffett had done some growing up. Some of the tracks, such as those about his little daughter and his memories, appeared to indicate the aging of the man who claimed he was "Growing Older But Not Up." Coconut Telegraph bore some thematic resemblance to Volcano and Son of a Son of a Sailor, released in 1979 and 1978 All three...
...measure of a singer/songwriter's versatility is his treatment of non-original material. On Coconut Telegraph Buffett recorded a contemporary version of the 1930s hit "Stars Fell on Alabama." On this album, there are two covers, both of which recall bygone days of steamships sailing away for distant shores "Steamer," copyrighted by John Scott Sherrill last year, is a hauntingly sad reminiscence of lost love in a setting of crowds seeing a ship off at the dock. The imagery evokes the streamers, balloons, straw boaters and brave smiles known to us children of the 1960s only through black-and-white...
...Administration took its first step in the right direction in December when it engineered a settlement with American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T). For a quarter of a century, the giant conglomerate had been enmeshed in a legislative and judicial thicket, as a 1956 consent decree forbidding AT&T to manufacture and sell data-processing and other high-technology equipment has grown obsolete in a changing market with foreign competition...